Events /Past Events

image of Statue of Liberty and dollar signs

November 21, 202511:00 AM

'Can Democracy and Capitalism Be Reconciled?'

  • William Galston

  • Christine Mahoney

  • Scott C. Miller

  • Alexander Tabarrok

  • Sidney Milkis (moderator)

  • Margaret Foster Riley (introduction)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Capital building with a large red "Shutdown" stamped on top

November 18, 202511:00 AM

What can we learn from the government shutdown and the elections?

  • Dan Meyer

  • Rachel Augustine Potter

  • Doug Sosnik

  • Louisa Terrell

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location:ONLINE

President Clinton and and Vice President Gore address the crowd gathered on the White House's South Lawn to witness the signing of the Budget Bill, August 10, 1993.

Miller Center 50th Anniversary

November 13, 202505:30 PM

Revisiting the William J. Clinton presidency

  • Sylvia M. Burwell

  • John Harris

  • James Steinberg

  • Russell Riley (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image of soldier and AI on device

October 29, 202511:00 AM

AI, national security, and democratic accountability

  • Ashley Deeks

  • Brian Lessenberry

  • George Foresman (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image of medical supplies

October 23, 202511:00 AM

Trump and the future of American health care

  • Margaret Foster Riley

  • Vivian Riefberg

  • Jonathan R. Crowe

  • Guian McKee (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Xi and Trump photos

October 15, 202511:00 AM

U.S.-China relations in Trump's second term

  • Scott Kennedy

  • Brantly Womack

  • Aynne Kokas (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image of globe and gavel

October 10, 202511:00 AM

Global security and the rule of law

  • James E. Baker

  • Yegor Krasnov

  • Agnes Opoku-Barnieh

  • Janaína Rodrigues Valle Gomes

  • Mara Rudman (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

George HW Bush on phone in Maine

Miller Center 50th Anniversary

October 09, 202511:00 AM

Revisiting the George H. W. Bush presidency

  • Spencer D. Bakich

  • Mary Kate Cary

  • Frederick McClure

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Bush Obama

September 24, 202505:00 PM

Presidential leadership: Two case studies

  • Joshua Bolten

  • Thomas Donilon

  • Mark Dybul

  • William H. McRaven

  • Leon E. Panetta

  • Peter Wehner

  • Dasha Burns (moderator)

  • Ann Compton (moderator)

Location:University of Virginia's Rotunda
1826 University Avenue
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image with blue screen over faces of AMerican presidents from 20th and 21st centuries

September 24, 202509:00 AM

Illustration of Donald Trump in front of an American flag

September 10, 202511:00 AM

The Trump doctrine: America First revisited

  • Jeffrey W. Legro

  • Stephen D. Mull

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Philip B. K. Potter

  • Mara Rudman

  • William J. Antholis (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

John Adams painting

September 04, 202512:00 PM

'Making the Presidency: John Adams'

  • Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  • Saikrishna Prakash

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Ladybird Johnson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosalyn Carter, Betty Ford, and Barbara Bush sit together on May 11, 1994.

May 16, 202502:00 PM

First Ladies: Their enduring impact on American life

  • Teri Finneman

  • Heath Hardage Lee

  • Michael LaRosa

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office on December 6, 1971.

Miller Center 50th Anniversary

May 07, 202511:00 AM

Insights from 50 years of secret Oval Office recordings

  • Kent Germany

  • Ken Hughes

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Guian McKee (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

President Trump signing executive orders 2025

May 01, 202511:00 AM

The presidency transformed? Trump 47 at 100 days

  • Sidney Milkis

  • Saikrishna Prakash

  • Marc Short

  • Louisa Terrell

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Founding father faces on inner workings of a watch

Miller Center 50th Anniversary

April 29, 202511:00 AM

Public policy in a complex age

  • Guian McKee

  • Rachel Augustine Potter

  • Margaret Foster Riley

  • Mara Rudman

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Robert Strong

  • David Leblang (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Crumpled up globe like crumpled up paper ball

James C. Lehrer Lecture

April 24, 202511:00 AM

America in the world: A journalist's view

  • Nick Schifrin

  • William Antholis (moderator)

  • George Martin (introduction)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Image of Donald Trump on cell phone with gold and a gold bitcoin in the background

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

April 11, 202511:00 AM

Democratic capitalism in the age of Trump

  • Sidney Milkis

  • Scott Miller

  • Margaret Foster Riley

  • Hannah Knox Tucker (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Image of American and Chinese flags superimposed on the moon

March 27, 202511:00 AM

Trump 2.0 and the future of U.S.-China relations

  • Lincoln Hines

  • Wendy Weile Zhou

  • Mara Rudman (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Reagan and advisors

Miller Center 50th Anniversary

March 25, 202511:00 AM

Revisiting the Ronald Reagan presidency

  • Max Boot

  • Chester Pach

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

White House in springtime

March 20, 202502:00 PM

'How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents'

  • Talmage Boston

  • Steven Gillon

  • Marc Selverstone (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Man wheeling cross in front of US Capitol

March 18, 202511:00 AM

Exploring democracy and Christianity

  • Colin Bird

  • Laurie Maffly-Kipp

  • Jonathan Rauch

  • John M. Owen IV (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Trump and Modi at Howdy Modi, Houston, TX, 2019.

March 03, 202511:00 AM

The future of U.S.-India relations

  • Indrani Chatterjee

  • Ambassador Rahul Chhabra

  • John Echeverri-Gent

  • Jeffrey W. Legro (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

International money in rolls

William and Carol Stevenson Conference

February 28, 202509:30 AM

The future of American financial and economic statecraft

  • George (Yiorgos) Allayannis

  • Emily Blanchard

  • Everett Eissenstat

  • Henry Farrell

  • Michael Froman

  • Peter Harrell

  • Philip Zelikow

  • William Antholis (moderator)

  • Alexander Bick (moderator)

  • Scott Miller (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image of hand holding cellphone showing map of Greenland with Trump in the background

February 19, 202505:00 PM

President Trump's foreign policy promises

  • Dale Copeland

  • Jeff Legro

  • Scott Miller

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Mara Rudman

  • Allan C. Stam

  • Brantly Womack

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location:ONLINE

Jimmy Carter Oral history group shot

Miller Center 50th Anniversary

February 13, 202511:00 AM

Revisiting the Jimmy Carter presidency

  • Paige Alexander

  • Jonathan Alter

  • Robert Strong (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Earth floating in a stormy sea

January 30, 202511:00 AM

The future of the Paris Climate Agreement

  • Todd Stern

  • Michael J. Lenox (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

collage of different faces

January 21, 202511:00 AM

Race, gender, and the 2024 electorate

  • Andra Gillespie

  • Bertrall Ross

  • Kevin K. Gaines (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting in 2019.

January 13, 202504:00 PM

State of the Trump transition

  • Eric Edelman

  • Dan Meyer

  • Mara Rudman

  • Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Donkey and elephant covered in red white blue paint

December 12, 202411:00 AM

Putting the 2024 election in perspective

  • Guian McKee

  • Barbara Perry

  • Marc Selverstone

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location:The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

White House in front of Eisenhower Executive Office Building

November 21, 202410:00 AM

Transitions: Planning and staffing a presidency

  • Christina M. Kinane

  • Katherine B. McGuire

  • Molly E. Reynolds

  • Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

  • Louisa Terrell

  • Peter Wehner

  • William J. Antholis (moderator)

  • Sarah A. Binder (moderator)

Location:The Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium
1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
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ONLINE

governors cox and murphy

Democracy Dialogues

November 19, 202410:00 AM

How Americans can disagree better

  • Spencer Cox

  • Phil Murphy

  • Mary Kate Cary (co-moderator)

  • Jennifer Lawless (co-moderator)

  • James E. Ryan (introduction)

Location:UVA's Rotunda
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ONLINE